Skipping the getter/setter dance for POJOs and just using public fields.
You at least made them final right ?
Ask HN: What horrible things do you do in your own code when no one is watching?
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#32int x;
String str;
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#33Oh dear. I've done just about everything on this page...
I never hide data. All structs with all public members. Even if I write an API around that, I can still just access everything directly if I want to.
When I use raw pointers, I usually don't check for nullptr.
I abuse unions and their initial members and don't bother checking tags even if I tag them.
Does it compile? Good. Does it run? Good. If I leave it running does it eat all my RAM? No? it's probably fine then.
I tend not to push changes for weeks or sometimes months, and my commit message is basically that I forgot everything I actually changed. Also, my commit messages are terrible.
I keep one big text file full of notes, comments and old code pasted in. My source code itself tends not to be commented well as a result.
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#34Proper async code tends to go out the window where timers will suffice. It's filthy, but often faster and it works for whatever narrow problem the one-off script in question is solving.
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#35The ever-present possibilty of open-sourcing on github and getting code-reviewed by future employers hangs over my head like the sword of Damocles.
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#36Re: Ask HN: What horrible things do you do in your own code when no one is watching?
#37The ever-present possibilty of open-sourcing on github and getting code-reviewed by future employers hangs over my head like the sword of Damocles.
That's one of the reasons I no longer use Github. I don't want every line of code I write to be used as part of a hiring filter, much less just the languages I'm tagged with or the number of stars in my repos or in anything I contribute to.
The more useless social media BS Github piles onto its site the more it becomes the new Linkedin... no thanks.
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#38The ever-present possibilty of open-sourcing on github and getting code-reviewed by future employers hangs over my head like the sword of Damocles.
That's one of the reasons I no longer use Github. I don't want every line of code I write to be used as part of a hiring filter, much less just the languages I'm tagged with or the number of stars in my repos or in anything I contribute to. The more useless social media BS Github piles onto its site the more it becomes the new Linkedin... no thanks.
That sounds a bit like fretting over the fine details of which clothes to wear. There's a good chance the other party is not that interested, and does not dwell on or even notice these things.
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#39All throw away db table names starts with suxx_.
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#40Profanity. It can look like a key party got out of hand in there. Use g for a string variable at least once.
I can never resist naming Assembly variables ass. Also leads to lots of fun variations: dynamicAss, assBuilder, assTypes, ...